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1984 Jul 2 - 1984 Oct 5
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1287
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 17A)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 219
Any docs withheld? 6

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84 Sep 1 Sa Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Visit of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to Dublin on 31 August”) [Prior “did not think that the arrangements of 1974 could be repeated”] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 11 Th Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Appointment of New Secretary of State for Northern Ireland”) [cautious press reaction] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 12 Su Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2540 to FCO (2206Z) (“Galvin Incident, Belfast, 12 August”) [“There is no love lost between Biaggi and the more moderate Irish-American congressional leadership”] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 7 Fr Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2664 to FCO (2359Z) (“Northern Ireland: Possible Senate Hearing”) [aim to avoid hearing] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Flesher telegram to MT (Galvin incident) [decision to exclude Galvin “looked like a ‘bad mistake’”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Press tape story (Galvin incident) [Prior takes responsibility for mistakes]
84 Oct 1 Mo Major Northern Ireland: MT telegram to FitzGerald (PIRA shipment captured) [congratulations to security forces] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 20 Fr Major Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (“Discussion with Irish Ambassador - 19 July 1984”) [Irish “suspicion that we do not fully appreciate the importance of what the Irish are trying to do”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 24 Tu Major Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (“Note of a discussion with HM Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland on 24 July 1984”) [“members of the Irish Cabinet were worried about the inter-party talks which were being initiated”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 25 We Major Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Transfer of power to make regulations under the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1974 to the Lord Chancellor”) [Hailsham agrees to the transfer] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 4 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Enoch Powell speech (Ulster in peril) [“Ulster representation in a Dublin parliament means the end of the Union”]
84 Aug 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Kinnock letter to MT (Galvin incident) [seeks independent inquiry] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Flesher minute for MT (Galvin incident) [Prior comments and Kinnock call for enquiry] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 17 Fr Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Kinnock (Galvin incident) [with drafts] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Adam Butler letter to Havers (“Delays in Coming to Trial”) [“Jim appreciates your concern that we should not compound our present security problems”] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 20 Th Major Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“PIRA Threat to Supermarket Chain”) [“very serious consequences of such a large sum of money finding its way into the hands of the PIRA and being used for the purchase of arms”] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 24 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [the Irish side “accepted that what was now under discussion was not joint sovereignty or joint authority”] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 24 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Havers minute to Hurd (“R -v- Dominic McGlinchey”) [“we may be heading for a very difficult and embarrassing series of events in connection with it”] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 24 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Sandiford letter to Butler (“PIRA Threat to Supermarket Chain”) [press reports that “a large sum of money had found its way by a circuitous route to the Dublin branch of the Bank of Ireland, and that some of this money had already been withdrawn”] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Neil Ward minute to Turnbull (“Financial Support for Northern Ireland”) [“level of support has been the subject of some local political controversy in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]